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A review by sunscanid
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
[review copied over from my old goodreads]
I don’t even know how to start this review, if I’m being honest.
Stone Butch Blues is the most powerful book I’ve read… possibly ever. Feinberg’s storytelling is compelling and so, so real, and I didn’t spend a chapter of this book feeling as if my time wasn’t being spent in good use. Jess is such a strong character, and the story of her, and of butches as a whole, is incredibly well told in this novel.
We learn who Jess is alongside her as she learns it herself, bouncing from gay bars to blue-collar jobs to the messy living spaces in between, her understanding of herself and the world around her changing with time and experience and each new person she meets.
It’d be difficult to emerge from reading this without a renewed sense of appreciation for butches, for transsexuals, for anyone who exists outside the norm. It’s a story about gender as much as it is transness, and it left me thinking one word: wow.
A must-read, in my eyes.
I don’t even know how to start this review, if I’m being honest.
Stone Butch Blues is the most powerful book I’ve read… possibly ever. Feinberg’s storytelling is compelling and so, so real, and I didn’t spend a chapter of this book feeling as if my time wasn’t being spent in good use. Jess is such a strong character, and the story of her, and of butches as a whole, is incredibly well told in this novel.
We learn who Jess is alongside her as she learns it herself, bouncing from gay bars to blue-collar jobs to the messy living spaces in between, her understanding of herself and the world around her changing with time and experience and each new person she meets.
It’d be difficult to emerge from reading this without a renewed sense of appreciation for butches, for transsexuals, for anyone who exists outside the norm. It’s a story about gender as much as it is transness, and it left me thinking one word: wow.
A must-read, in my eyes.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Lesbophobia, Homophobia, and Police brutality